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Caption : KAZIRANGA, 05/04/2010: Union Minister (Independent Charge) for Environment and Forest Jairam Ramesh having words with the forest guards during his visit to the Kaziranga National Park about 250 km away from Guwahati city on April 05, 2010. This is his first visit to Kaziranga after he taken charge of Environment and Forest Minister. Kaziranga is known all over the world for successful conservation of Great One Horned Rhinoceros. There are seventeen species of mammals, twenty three species of birds and ten species of reptiles which are in endangered list are found in Kaziranga. It has also evolve into a tiger reserve in 2007 and now having a tiger population of about 100 tigers in just 1002 sq.km area.
Photo: Ritu Raj Konwar